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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Courage, Power
The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Men, Law
Commencement address at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 8 June 1978

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Special, Moments

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Essence, Formulas
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Moving, Alive
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.251, Macmillan

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life, Tasks, Bars
"The Struggle Intensifies". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (May 16, 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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